Excitability properties of normal and demyelinated human motor nerve axons

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 147-152

  Stephanova, D I ^a   Daskalova, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Fibre stimulation; Myelinated and demyelinated human motor nerve fibres; Rheobase currents; Strength duration time constants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; POLARIZATION; STRENGTH; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RANVIER'S NODES;

EID: 1942518905     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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